In 2012, Steubenville (Ohio) high school's football team players gang-raped an unconscious teenage girl from West Virginia and took photographs of the sexual assault.

In December 2012, a member of the hacker collective Anonymous hacked into the Steubenville High School football fan website Roll Red Roll and leaked some evidence of the rape, including a video taken and shared by the crime's perpetrators in which they joked about the sexual assault.

The hack exposed information about the gang rape by two football team players — Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond, both 16 at the time of the crime — who were eventually convicted and sentenced in 2013 to 2 and one years behind bars, respectively, but have since been released.

In 2013, the FBI raided the home of Deric Lostutter — Anonymous member, also known online as "KYAnonymous" — and seized two laptops, flash drives, CD's, an external hard-drive, cell phones and an XBox, and arrested him.

Lostutter, a 29-year-old man from Winchester, pleaded guilty in federal court in Kentucky on Wednesday to one count of conspiring to illegally break into the computers to draw attention to the Steubenville rape case without authorization and one count of lying to an FBI agent.

What's weird? The hacker is facing a longer prison term than the rapists.

Lostutter said he hacked into the site with just an intention to expose information about the gang rape. He said in court Wednesday, "We wanted to stand up for a girl who had no voice, and we went about it the wrong way," according to WTVQ.

However, prosecutors alleged that Lostutter participated in an online campaign against the school in late 2012 under the banner of Anonymous. They also said Lostutter used the online alias KYAnonymous to conspire online with other hacktivists in December 2012.

According to prosecutors, the goal was to intimidate and harass an individual who ran Roll Red Roll, the website dedicated to the football team. Lostutter gained unauthorized access to the target's website and leaked its owner's personal emails online.

There's no doubt that the operation against the school website helped bring the Steubenville rape case into the national spotlight. But Lostutter was questioned over his participation after the campaign got off the ground.

"Lostutter filmed a video wearing a mask and wrote a manifesto, which was both posted on the website to harass and intimidate people, and to gain publicity for Lostutter and [Noah] McHugh's online identities," said the protectors.

"Specifically, the messages threatened to reveal personal identifying information of Steubenville High School students, and made false claims that the administrator of the fan website was involved in child pornography and directed a 'rape crew.'"

Lostutter faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and $250,000 in fines. He is scheduled to appear before the judge for sentencing on March 8, 2017. His defense did not comment on the plea agreement.

Noah McHugh, co-conspirator of Lostutter, was pleaded guilty in September to hacking the Steubenville website. He is slated to be sentenced in December.

Another member of the hacker collective Anonymous has been unmasked this week. FBI raided the home of Deric Lostutter in April. Two laptops, flash drives, CD's, an external hard-drive, cell phones and an Xbox were reportedly seized during the raid.

Deric Lostutter, a 26-year-old from Winchester, is also known as KYAnonymous, a member of the hacktivist collective Anonymous who leaked a video showing the young men who raped an unconscious teenaged girl in Steubenville, Ohio, bragging about what they did in a disgustingly proud manner.

In March, football stars Trent Mays, 17, and Ma'lik Richmond, 16, were convicted of the rape. They were sentenced to a minimum of one year in a juvenile detention institution with a maximum stay until they are 21.

Lostutter, a self-employed IT security consultant and self-described Anonymous member, said that he'd just returned from a turkey hunt when he noticed what appeared to be a FedEx truck in his driveway. "As I open the door to great [sic] the driver approximately 12 F.B.I. Swat Team agents jumped out of the truck screaming for me to 'Get The F**k Down' with m-16 assault rifles and full riot gear armed safety off, pointed directly at my head,"

The raid of Deric’s home was said to be in connection to the hacking of a site called RollRedRoll, a fan site for the Steubenville football team that got defaced by Anonymous during the controversy over the incident.

Lostutter told that he didn't hack RolledRoll.com and he said the screenshots were obtained by him through online activists. Rollredroll.com webmaster James Park's email account was broken into, and many of his private emails dumped online.

He could face up to 10 years of jail time if he’s convicted of hacking-related crimes.

Two high school football players in Steubenville, Ohio are under arrest for the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl. Newly leaked video sheds more light on what may have happened to a girl who told police she was raped by these high school football players in August.

Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond- have been arrested and charged with raping a fellow 16-year-old, taking her to a number of parties when she was too drunk to resist, digitally penetrating her and possibly even urinating on her.

A small group of information activists was able to do what 3 Ohio state law enforcement agencies couldn't. The clip, released this week by an Anonymous cell calling itself “Knight Sec” is reported to show former Steubenville, Ohio high school athlete Michael Colin Nodianos bragging about the sexual assault from a friend’s apartment. On the video which recently was posted online, the boys joke about the girl appearing "dead".

On their website, called Local Leaks: The Steubenville Files, they said that they took up the cause since 'a town rife with corruption, cronyism, illegal gambling and fixated upon their star high school football team were prepared to orchestrate a major cover-up in order to sweep the entire affair under the rug.'

Their trial before an Ohio juvenile court judge is scheduled for February 13. The rapists themselves, and their so-called rape crew, think they’re untouchable. The rules don’t apply to them.

This video is not the first time hackers have published information about people connected with the case. Knight Sec, working with other Anonymous hackers, took over a fan site dedicated to the Steubenville football team and demanded anyone involved come forward and apologize for their actions.

A peaceful demonstration in support for the alleged victim is scheduled for January 5 at Steubenville City Hall.